r1062 was building but r1-98 does not.... See below This is on a 32-bit Ubuntu 10.04 host in case that is relevant. Charles make[2]: Entering directory `/opt/balloon/trunk/rootfs/emdebian' #Clean-up: in order to use fakeroot we have to clean out rootfs first mkdir -p ../../../build/rootfs/emdebian/sources/packages (cd ../../../build/rootfs/emdebian && rm -rf emdebian-grip-rootfs) rm -f ../../../build/rootfs/emdebian/fakerootstate # build rootfs with multistrap and then fix it up enough to boot it and do dpkg --configure -a; # then unpack modules into rootfs and tar up the resulting whole. # Fakeroot state is loaded/saved between invocations to preserve ownerships `if [ -z $FAKEROOTKEY ]; then echo "fakeroot -i ../../../build/rootfs/emdebian/fakerootstate -s ../../../build/rootfs/emdebian/fakerootstate"; fi;` /usr/sbin/em_multistrap -a armel -d "../../../build/rootfs/emdebian/emdebian-grip-rootfs" -f "multistrap-balloon.conf" --tidy-up --source-dir ../../../build/rootfs/emdebian/sources/packages && \ `if [ -z $FAKEROOTKEY ]; then echo "fakeroot -i ../../../build/rootfs/emdebian/fakerootstate -s ../../../build/rootfs/emdebian/fakerootstate"; fi;` "./rootfs-config" "../../../build/rootfs/emdebian/emdebian-grip-rootfs" "files" && \ (cd ../../../build/rootfs/emdebian/emdebian-grip-rootfs && rm -rf lib/modules/ ) && \ `if [ -z $FAKEROOTKEY ]; then echo "fakeroot -i ../../../build/rootfs/emdebian/fakerootstate -s ../../../build/rootfs/emdebian/fakerootstate"; fi;` tar -C ../../../build/rootfs/emdebian/emdebian-grip-rootfs --owner=root --group=root -xf ../../../build/kernel/modules.tgz && \ `if [ -z $FAKEROOTKEY ]; then echo "fakeroot -i ../../../build/rootfs/emdebian/fakerootstate -s ../../../build/rootfs/emdebian/fakerootstate"; fi;` tar -C ../../../build/rootfs/emdebian/emdebian-grip-rootfs -czf ../../../build/rootfs/emdebianrootstrap.tgz . fakeroot: database file `../../../build/rootfs/emdebian/fakerootstate' does not exist. em_multistrap 2.0.9 using multistrap-balloon.conf Using foreign architecture: armel em_multistrap building armel multistrap on 'i386' INF: Setting ./lib64 -> ./lib symbolic link. Getting package lists: apt-get -o Apt::Architecture=armel -o Apt::Get::AllowUnauthenticated=true -o Apt::Get::Download-Only=true -o Apt::Install-Recommends=false -o Dir=/opt/balloon/build/rootfs/emdebian/emdebian-grip-rootfs/ -o Dir::Etc=/opt/balloon/build/rootfs/emdebian/emdebian-grip-rootfs/etc/apt/ -o Dir::Etc::SourceList=/opt/balloon/build/rootfs/emdebian/emdebian-grip-rootfs/etc/apt/sources.list.d/multistrap.sources.list -o Dir::State=/opt/balloon/build/rootfs/emdebian/emdebian-grip-rootfs/var/lib/apt/ -o Dir::State::Status=/opt/balloon/build/rootfs/emdebian/emdebian-grip-rootfs/var/lib/dpkg/status -o Dir::Cache=/opt/balloon/build/rootfs/emdebian/emdebian-grip-rootfs/var/cache/apt/ update Get:1 http://www.emdebian.org lenny Release.gpg [197B] Ign http://www.emdebian.org/grip/ lenny/main Translation-en_NZ Get:2 http://www.emdebian.org lenny Release [21.1kB] Ign http://www.emdebian.org lenny/main Packages Ign http://www.emdebian.org lenny/main Sources Ign http://www.emdebian.org lenny/main Packages Ign http://www.emdebian.org lenny/main Sources Get:3 http://www.emdebian.org lenny/main Packages [223kB] Get:4 http://www.emdebian.org lenny/main Sources [249kB] Fetched 494kB in 11s (43.5kB/s) Reading package lists... Done W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://www.emdebian.org/grip/ lenny/main Packages (/opt/balloon/build/rootfs/emdebian/emdebian-grip-rootfs/var/lib/apt/lists/www.emdebian.org_grip_dists_lenny_main_binary-armel_Packages) W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems apt-get -y -o Apt::Architecture=armel -o Apt::Get::AllowUnauthenticated=true -o Apt::Get::Download-Only=true -o Apt::Install-Recommends=false -o Dir=/opt/balloon/build/rootfs/emdebian/emdebian-grip-rootfs/ -o Dir::Etc=/opt/balloon/build/rootfs/emdebian/emdebian-grip-rootfs/etc/apt/ -o Dir::Etc::SourceList=/opt/balloon/build/rootfs/emdebian/emdebian-grip-rootfs/etc/apt/sources.list.d/multistrap.sources.list -o Dir::State=/opt/balloon/build/rootfs/emdebian/emdebian-grip-rootfs/var/lib/apt/ -o Dir::State::Status=/opt/balloon/build/rootfs/emdebian/emdebian-grip-rootfs/var/lib/dpkg/status -o Dir::Cache=/opt/balloon/build/rootfs/emdebian/emdebian-grip-rootfs/var/cache/apt/ install apt balloon3-config base-files base-passwd bash bsdutils coreutils debian-archive-keyring debianutils diff dpkg e2fslibs e2fsprogs emdebian-archive-keyring findutils gcc-4.3-base grep grip-config gzip hostname initscripts iputils-ping libacl1 libattr1 libblkid1 libc6 libcap1 libcomerr2 libdevmapper1.02.1 libgcc1 liblocale-gettext-perl libncurses5 libpam-modules libpam-runtime libpam0g libselinux1 libsepol1 libslang2 libss2 libstdc++6 libtext-charwidth-perl libtext-iconv-perl libtext-wrapi18n-perl libuuid1 libvolume-id0 login lsb-base makedev mawk mktemp mount ncurses-base ncurses-bin ntpdate passwd pcmciautils perl-base procps sed sysv-rc sysvinit sysvinit-utils tar tzdata udev util-linux zlib1g Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done E: Couldn't find package pcmciautils apt download failed. Exit value: 100 make[2]: *** [../../../build/rootfs/emdebianrootstrap.tgz] Error 100 make[2]: Leaving directory `/opt/balloon/trunk/rootfs/emdebian' make[1]: *** [all] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/balloon/trunk/rootfs' make: *** [all] Error 1 charles@qcore:/opt/balloon/trunk$